April 2008 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Host /Host Instance Creation and Adapter Configuration Tool for BizTalk Server

I’ve put together a new BizTalk Tool available for download on BizTalkGurus.com. This tool will do the following: - Create Hosts - Create Host Instances - Assign Adapters to the new Hosts This tool can early be set up using a Configuration file and will...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 9:10 PM by Stephen W. Thomas BizTalk Blog

Creating Multi-Part Messages in BizTalk

Last year I wrote an entry about adding arbitrary binary attachments to a Multi-Part message in BizTalk 2006 using a helper C# component. That entry has been fairly popular (as far as BizTalk posts go, which is not usually much!), and I occasionally get...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 8:35 PM by Commonality - BizTalk

Filed under: BizTalk

SSO Database - external credentials are more recent

Hey folks - while flying through different timezones and working away on my VPCs I came across the problem below. Basically no further work could be done on the Application within the BizTalk Admin Console. Couldn't stop/start, undeploy...delete etc...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 9:45 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk;BizTalk/Insights

BizTalk: Architectural Tips: Custom Audit

The audit can be implemented by BizTalk Tracking (BizTalkDTADb) database. But there is one big "But". This database has predefined, undescribed structure, it should be used only by special BizTalk tools as HAT. We cannot change the audit points...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 8:14 PM by Leonid Ganeline

Filed under: BizTalk, - Architecture

Testing BizTalk Applications

Found a great resource today for how to go about testing BizTalk applications. It covers best practices on how to unit test various BizTalk artifacts such as schemas, maps, pipelines, orchestrations. This covers how these should be covered...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 6:54 PM by Blog BizTalk

Filed under: General

How to Easily Document BizTalk Applications

One of the tasks developers find most tedious is documentation. It gets to the point that documentation never gets done in many cases. This is where documentation tools comes in handy. There is a documentation tool that is available...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 6:37 PM by Blog BizTalk

Filed under: General

BizTalk SQL Message Archive component using Forward-Only Streaming

A colleague of mine, Christoph Hanser , came to me with the idea you could use the UPDATETEXT command to stream data to a SQL database. This approach would work well with a forward-only streaming manner, which would consume much less (BizTalk) resources...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 5:00 PM by Mikael Håkanssons Blog

Filed under: BizTalk, SQL, Components

April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Displaying the Number of Active Users...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 10:35 PM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: ASP.NET, Atlas, silverlight, Link Listing, MVC

Business Rules Engine - I WANT TO BELIEVE

This is a call to anyone who happens upon my blog, thru my contact page , let me know why I would want to use the Business Rule Engine. As I see it, it seems like it is a lot of work to do something that can be done using SQL, C#, etc. In many cases,...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 3:51 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

BizTalk 2006 R3 - Where Will BizTalk Go Next?

As many of you probably know by now, Microsoft has announced the next release in the BizTalk Server Family. This release will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. I for one am excited for this release, as I am about almost anything BizTalk related. I am...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 2:35 PM by Stephen W. Thomas BizTalk Blog

Caching database functoid and throttling

In case you haven't seen the Blogical.Shared.Functoids .ExecuteQuery, and the feature post at Mikael Håkanssons blog , it's a cache enabled database lookup functoid - a revised version of a functoid that we have successfully used on previous projects...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 12:54 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: BizTalk, performance, Functoids

Composite Applications and Distributed "Service Networks"

For those that have managed to avoid the pitfall of SOA for SOA’s sake, composite applications are one of the biggest driving forces behind deployments. The reason for service enablement in the first place is so that you can compose them into new applications...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 10:17 AM by Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Simple Middleware - Steven Martin, CSD Product Management

Filed under: Pursuit of simple middleware

Using BAM for latency tracking in a BizTalk request response scenario

This post will try and explain how BAM tracking can be used in SOAP based request response scenario in BizTalk 2006. It important to notice that some of the issues discussed in the post are specific to the SOAP adapter and are non-issues if the scenario...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 6:35 AM by .RICHARD

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, BAM, Tutorial

BizTalk 2006, MSMQ and BizTalk 2002

A little over a year ago I posted an entry about a new feature included in the MSMQ Send Adapter in BizTalk 2006 which provided a way to send messages through MSMQ from BizTalk to legacy applications that required the message contents to be formatted...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 11:24 PM by Commonality - BizTalk

Filed under: BizTalk, MSMQ

Slides from my ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks

Last week I presented at the ASP.NET Connections Conference in Orlando. I gave a general session talk on Monday, and then two breakout talks later that day. You can download my slides+samples below: General Session The slides for my keynote...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 9:51 PM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: ASP.NET, .Net, silverlight, MVC, Talks

BizTalk: Debuging the BizTalk applications with the direct test send ports

" ...I have published an orchestration as a web service and consumed it from an aspx page. now, how do I see if I triggered the orchestration and how and where do I get the output (transformed message of the orchestration)? ... " It is a very...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 3:54 PM by Leonid Ganeline

Filed under: BizTalk, - Architecture, - Orchestrations

BizTalk Administration Tutorials

This post is for those of you who are administrators rather then developers, and don't keep track of the latest downloads around BizTalk . Microsoft has, at the same time that they released a revised version of the developer centric tutorials , released...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 2:47 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: BizTalk, Configuration, Readings, Administration, Maintenance, Monitoring, Learning

Silverlight Rehab and Biztalk R3

Hilarious video here. Check it out. Looking at the R3 information post i’m thinking that, if the Oslo vision is realised then maybe one day someone will have a clinic for Biztalk addicts !! (Right now, many times it seems we need more Nurofen or...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2008 1:16 PM by Santosh Benjamin's Weblog

Filed under: BizTalk, SOA

Searching Inside Stored Procedures

I’ve recently inherited a large BizTalk system and needed a quick way to determine which custom stored procedures accessed which tables/views and called other sprocs. Thanks to my co-worker Shaun, I now have the power of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2008 10:45 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: SQL Server, INFORMATION_SCHEMA

BizTalk 2006 R2, EDI and RFID SCOM2007 Management Pack Released!!! Yeah baby!

We've now got official Management Pack support for R2 and the newer things in R2 such as EDI and RFID. I've had many students come up to me and say "Mick - what in the world are you talking about?" (mind you I get that at home as well...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2008 5:59 AM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk;BizTalk/Insights;BizTalk/RFID;General;Tips